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Post by mintedstar/fur on Dec 12, 2022 18:14:08 GMT -5
Anyone got some comic/manga or chill book recs?
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Post by Quill on Dec 13, 2022 10:33:43 GMT -5
I just read The Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen. It was pretty good. Heartwarming/cute without being cheesy, which is hard to do.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Dec 17, 2022 12:06:16 GMT -5
Oh awesome! What's the plot? Or what do you consider the highlights, rather?
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Post by Quill on Dec 17, 2022 19:54:00 GMT -5
It's a magical realist book in which the main characters all live in an apartment complex together. They all have some sort of traumatic upbringing and or/bad parents, but they learn to bond together. There is also a mystery, sort of.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Dec 20, 2022 14:33:10 GMT -5
Ooooh! I like this combo!
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Jan 1, 2023 18:11:14 GMT -5
I only just made my reading challenge this year. @.@
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Post by mossecho on Jan 2, 2023 5:41:47 GMT -5
anyone have any reading goals for the new year?
and mintedstar/fur: congrats on finishing! what was the challenge?
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Post by xєяσ єємαι zσηтαησѕ ♬ on Jan 4, 2023 21:58:51 GMT -5
Definitely going to try to read more this year. I'm gonna strive for 50 books, but we'll see. Currently I'm just over halfway through Daisy Jones & the Six.
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Post by Sphinxwhisker on Jan 5, 2023 12:44:56 GMT -5
Don’t have any super exhaustive reading plans for 2023. But so far Jordan Peterson’s An Antidote to Chaos & Beyond Chaos books are currently on my priority to-read list.
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Post by rabbit on Jan 5, 2023 18:35:35 GMT -5
Definitely going to try to read more this year. I'm gonna strive for 50 books, but we'll see. Currently I'm just over halfway through Daisy Jones & the Six. That’s really ambitious since that’s like one book a week. Meanwhile, I’m hoping to complete about 10 books this year and anymore than that seems too unrealistic of a goal for me. lol |
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Post by Quill on Jan 5, 2023 23:15:49 GMT -5
I don't want to put a specific number on it, but I'm hoping to read as much as possible this year. Prioritize reading over scrolling on the internet and such.
I'm guessing that my reading will peak in January while I'm on break, dip but stay strong during the spring semester and summer, and plummet in the fall, when I will (hopefully) go to grad school.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Jan 14, 2023 3:19:24 GMT -5
My challenge was to read 100 books. Not doing TOO bad this year to start! Reading a lot of manga.  |
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Jan 18, 2023 12:22:06 GMT -5
My goal for the year is always to read a book per week. So far I'm on track. Other goals are to finish several of the half-started series I have and to read more from the books I own/the library instead of buying more books oof
I also have like half a dozen current reads atm and I'm jumping between them a lot so my progress is slow lol
Also mintedstar/fur getting back to your ask a bit late but the Peter Pan retelling was "Wendy, Darling" by A.C. Wise, though I think as horror retellings of Peter Pan go I prefer Christina Henry's "Lost Boy". As it turns out, there are a lot of horror retellings of Peter.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Jan 19, 2023 9:28:50 GMT -5
Noise! I should look some more up. Held a full conversation in German with a bookstore owner (employee? not sure) and that was super fun. |
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Post by *Spottedpelt* on Jan 31, 2023 20:06:09 GMT -5
Anyone got some comic/manga or chill book recs? Hello! I just finished reading Demon Slayer and really enjoyed it, so if you haven’t already read that one I would recommend that manga! I’ve also been enjoying Bleach and read the first volume of Dr. Stone, so I’d recommend those two as well! I’ve also been liking One Piece, haven’t read too far but I’ve been liking it! Also for a chill book recommendation I’d highly suggest the graphic novel of The Last Unicorn, easy read and the illustrations are gorgeous! |
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Feb 7, 2023 14:51:09 GMT -5
Finished the Lockwood and Co book series bc the show was released and I was excited lol
Mostly this has put me back in a massive Jonathan Stroud funk and I just wanna read the bartimaeus books yet again. We apparently might finally get a book 5 in the next few years and im so ready
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Feb 20, 2023 8:04:48 GMT -5
Finished the Lockwood and Co book series bc the show was released and I was excited lol
Mostly this has put me back in a massive Jonathan Stroud funk and I just wanna read the bartimaeus books yet again. We apparently might finally get a book 5 in the next few years and im so ready What Really? I never even knew that might be on the table??? HYPE. That'd be so awesome! |
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Feb 20, 2023 8:05:01 GMT -5
Anyone got some comic/manga or chill book recs? Hello! I just finished reading Demon Slayer and really enjoyed it, so if you haven’t already read that one I would recommend that manga! I’ve also been enjoying Bleach and read the first volume of Dr. Stone, so I’d recommend those two as well! I’ve also been liking One Piece, haven’t read too far but I’ve been liking it! Also for a chill book recommendation I’d highly suggest the graphic novel of The Last Unicorn, easy read and the illustrations are gorgeous! Oooh! I'll check it out! |
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Post by Quill on Feb 20, 2023 14:35:52 GMT -5
I bought over $400 dollars worth of books this week  It's not really like me to buy a ton of books or spend so much money on them, but I feel like I have to read as much as possible this year before I go to graduate school, where I know I won't have nearly as much time to read for pleasure. I've been going to the library, too, but there's something about owning physical copies that I love. Currently reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Anyone have any recommendations for books similar to the movie The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos? |
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Mar 1, 2023 16:39:05 GMT -5
What Really? I never even knew that might be on the table??? HYPE. That'd be so awesome!
I follow Stroud on like as many platforms as possible bc I'm a little obsessed and I'm always waiting for bartimaeus news (movie? anniversary editions?? new book??? movie?????)
Anyway he mentioned in a fundraising Q&A a bit over a year ago that he was working out a bartimaeus idea/outline, and then in a more recent livestream he mentioned he'd actually been writing new Bartimaeus material. Could be a short story/novella, and it could also end up unreleased since there's no official announcement as of yet, but I have hope.
His newest series releases its last book this year so it'd be the perfect time to announce a new project too c: esp since it would coincide with the first book's 20th anniversary, but this might all just be my wishful thinking lol
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Mar 1, 2023 16:43:48 GMT -5
anyway currently reading Shakespeare and I'll be reading a lot of his stuff in the next few months. just finished As You Like It. Wasn't much of a fan but still liked it more than Romeo and Juliet.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 27, 2023 16:38:05 GMT -5
Very fair.
I prefer Twelfth Night to As You Like It.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Mar 27, 2023 16:41:32 GMT -5
I bought over $400 dollars worth of books this week It's not really like me to buy a ton of books or spend so much money on them, but I feel like I have to read as much as possible this year before I go to graduate school, where I know I won't have nearly as much time to read for pleasure. I've been going to the library, too, but there's something about owning physical copies that I love. Currently reading Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Anyone have any recommendations for books similar to the movie The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos? Sadly I do not know the movie. And from the brief look at the summary I can't off the top of my head think of anything. Sorry! D: Nice book haul though! |
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Apr 1, 2023 15:14:17 GMT -5
Finished Richard III and Merry Wives of Windsor. Wasn't fond of Merry Wives but Richard III was great, I might just like Shakespeare's political tragedies tbh because the only other Shakespeare play i've ever liked was Julius Caesar.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Apr 16, 2023 11:35:42 GMT -5
You going to try any other political tragedies? :eyes:
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Post by *Ɗαɾƙρσσℓ* on Apr 18, 2023 17:26:07 GMT -5
Idk how much I'll read beyond what this class is assigning to me lol. Maybe eventually.
But just finished Othello which was...idk I have complicated feelings. Like it was good, maybe one of the best ones so far? But I didn't exactly enjoy reading it? I think I need to mull it over a bit. It was certainly interesting.
We're doing Hamlet next, which I've already read once and was not particularly fond of. Maybe will feel differently second time around, we'll see.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on Apr 30, 2023 6:25:40 GMT -5
I found I enjoyed some I didn't like depending on the class discussion around it.
I still hate Titus with a passion, but at least the passion is a bit interesting.
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Post by mintedstar/fur on May 3, 2023 13:14:11 GMT -5
Yeeeeeeeeeeah
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